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We are developing a list of websites interested in poverty and social exclusion which regularly publish new research or comment on policy. It covers organisations, academic institutions, research centres, and academic and social policy journalists’ blogs.

We hope you will find it useful. If you would like to be added to this list, please contact us.

AMCIS studies inequalities in (post-) industrialized societies and particularly focuses on the impact of stratifying variables (social origin, education, gender and ethnicity) on three outcome pillars: socioeconomic attainment, political behaviour and opinions, and living arrangements.

BPP aims to: increase the public understanding of the social sciences in the context of the UK government, facilitate the sharing and exchange of knowledge between experts within and outside universities and to open up academic research to increase its impact.

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Their mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations to strengthen American democracy.

CASE is a multi-disciplinary research centre based at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), within the Suntory and Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines (STICERD). Their focus is on exploration of different dimensions of social disadvantage, particularly from longitudinal and neighbourhood perspectives, and examination of the impact of public policy.

CSSGJ is based in the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Nottingham. CSSGJ offers a space for reflection, education and research in many different facets of social and global justice. Its research is marked by the variety of approaches and methods, both traditional and contemporary, and by a willingness to see the issue of justice as one involving both theory and practice – of how justice has been thought about and also how it is implemented.

The Centre for Social Justice and Community Action (CSJCA) is a research centre at Durham University, made up of academic researchers from a number of departments and disciplines and community partners. Their aim is to promote and develop research, teaching, public/community engagement and staff development (both within and outside the university) around the broad theme of social justice in local and international settings, with a specific focus on participatory action research.

CFNI promotes community development and supports a context for peace and social justice whilst aiming to reduce poverty and exclusion. Their Communities in Action programme is currently tracking the impact on individuals and families at the sharp end of government policy responses to the economic crisis. This programme is currently working in collaboration with the PSE:UK team.

This is the website and blogroll of Lane Kenworthy, Professor of Sociology and Political Science at the University of Arizona. Research areas include living standards, poverty, inequality, mobility, employment, economic growth, social policy, taxes, and politics in the United States and other affluent countries.

EconAcademics.org is a blog aggregator for Economics research hosted by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. It aims to enhance the discussion of economics research in the blogosphere by making it easier for the curious reader to find high-quality content.

The ESRC are the UK's largest organisation for funding research on economic and social issues. They support independent, high quality research which has an impact on business, the public sector and the third sector. Their total budget for 2012/13 is £205 million. At any one time they support over 4,000 researchers and postgraduate students in academic institutions and independent research institutes.

The network aims to bring together historians and social scientists interested in (a) debating how the historical and social sciences can share ideas and develop new methodologies to approach the question of inequality (b) developing and sharing groundbreaking work on inequality in historical perspective across disciplinary boundaries, and beyond academia.

Inequalities is a collaborative blog set up by a group of young researchers – sociologists, political scientists, geographers, demographers, social policy scholars, economists – from universities on both sides of the Atlantic who wanted to create a space to critically discuss research on inequality.

The goal at the Institute for Fiscal Studies is to promote effective economic and social policies by understanding better their impact on individuals, families, businesses and the government's finances. Findings are based on rigorous analysis, detailed empirical evidence and in-depth institutional knowledge.

Provide funding for research and practical strategies to reduce poverty, and wider social and economic inequalities. JRF's sixth study of poverty and social exclusion in Scotland highlights a huge rise in unemployment for under-25s, and stark and growing health inequalities.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities is a nonprofit, nonpartisan policy organization working at the federal and state levels on fiscal policy and public programs that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals.

The Policy Press publishes work across a range of policy issues, across a range of disciplines and across a range of products from detailed evaluations to broader topical explorations. Its publications have a broader aim: the use of research evidence to improve policy making, practice, or social well-being.

The leading Scottish anti-poverty network and campaigning organisation. It aims to combat poverty by empowering individuals and communities with experience of poverty to affect change in the distribution of power and resources.

This site addresses a series of topics in the philosophy of social science. What is involved in "understanding society"? The blog is an experiment in thinking, one idea at a time. Look at it as a web-based, dynamic monograph on the philosophy of social science and some foundational issues about the nature of the social world.

This Foundation was established by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States." It dedicates itself exclusively to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies.

The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality (CPI), is a nonpartisan research center dedicated to monitoring trends in poverty and inequality, explaining what's driving those trends, and developing science-based policy on poverty and inequality. CPI supports research by new and established scholars, trains the next generation of scholars and policy analysts, and disseminates the very best research on poverty and inequality.

The Equality Trust works to reduce income inequality in order to improve the quality of life for everyone in the UK. The Trust works with others to build a social movement for change. They analyse and disseminate the latest research, promote robust evidence-based arguments and support a dynamic network of campaign groups across the country.

This is a stakeholder group who believes that all children in the North East of England should have an equal chance in life. The Commission, which includes senior representatives from the public, private and voluntary sectors, aim to be an effective lobbying, influencing and campaigning group that can help to build public support for actions that improve the lives of poor children living in the North East.

IAI brings together world-leading theorists, scientists, politicians, and writers, and is committed to fostering a progressive and vibrant intellectual culture in the UK. IAI TV is an online channel where cutting-edge philosophical debates are available for everyone to watch and share.

The Centre was launched on 1st July 1999 at the University of Bristol. It is dedicated to multidisciplinary research on poverty in both the industrialised and developing world. Among its aims are: the production of practical policies and solutions for the alleviation and eventual ending of world poverty; analysis of the costs and consequences of poverty for individuals, families, communities and societies, and the wide dissemination of the policy implications of research into poverty.

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PSE:UK is a major collaboration between the University of Bristol, Heriot-Watt University, The Open University, Queen's University Belfast, University of Glasgow and the University of York working with the National Centre for Social Research and the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency. ESRC Grant RES-060-25-0052.